The Importance of Self-Efficacy
The belief that a person has regarding whether or not they can perform at a specific level is known as self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is mostly correlated with an individual's drive, emotional health, and performance successes. People are more likely to succeed when they believe in what they are doing. This is supported by their own initiative, inspiration, and incentives to endure and achieve. To boost employee performance, organizations should help them feel more self-effective (Ivancevich, Konopaske, & Matteson, 2011).
Factors Affecting Self-Efficacy
The strength, generality, and level of an individual all affect effectiveness. Ability determines strength, and level specifies the number of tasks one can accomplish and generality measures extend to which expect outcomes can be generalized. Behavior and socialization is influenced by self-efficacy and thus is instrumental in the organizational management. The main sources of self-efficacy among employees include their vicarious experience, manager's verbal persuasion, past performances, and the emotional cues.
Developing Self-Efficacy in Organizations
Managers have a tough task ensuring that self-efficacy plays a part among the employees in their organization. This can be done through recruitment of talented personnel, promoting the decisions made, training of staff, managing their development, and setting of both individual and organizational goals. The performance of an organization is determined by self-efficacy. This can be easily developed by persuasion, for instance through verbal means, exposure by way of models, psychological arousal, or managing the accomplishment of results. Prioritizing self-efficacy enables individuals to have confidence, thus increasing their performance, which in turn improves organizational productivity. Self-efficacy influences the chores employees learn and goals they set. They affect their persistence and efforts to learn when handling difficult tasks (Lunenburg, 2011).
References
Ivancevich, J. M., Konopaske, R., & Matteson, M. T. (2011). Organizational behavior and management (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Lunenburg, C., (2011). Self-Efficacy in the Workplace: Implications for Motivation and Performance. International Journal of Management, Business, and Administration Volume 24, Number 1,
